You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you very well. This is our fifth story for the month of January 2019 issue 148.

Thank you for taking a journey with us. Each and every podcast brings you to another world, lets you meet new characters,

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Our first story is titled Venus and Bloom and is by Lavi Tatar.

Lavi Tatar is the author of the Jurwood Fiction Uncovered Prize winning and Premio Roma

nominee A Man Lies Dreaming in 2014.

The World Fantasy Award winning Osama 2011

and the Campbell Award winning in Locusts and Clark Award nominated Central Station 2016.

His latest novels are the forthcoming Un Holy Land 2018 and First Children's Novel's novel, Candy, 2018.

He is the author of many other novels, novellas, and short stories.

You can find him at his website, lavitidar. Wordpress.com and Lavi has had many stories here at Clark's World

dating back all the way to 2006. His most recent ones, March 2015, the bookseller. July 2017 brought you the

Oracle and July 2018 brought you govenal.

So, my dear listeners, I hope you can sit back, relax, and let me tell you a story. Sorry.

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